April 27, 2014

FROM STORIES LIKE THIS, YOU’D THINK THAT HIGHER EDUCATION IS AN INDUSTRY THAT DOESN’T WORRY ABOUT ITS REPUTATION: ANOTHER university stops students from handing out Constitution. “Administrators further clarified their level of respect for students’ free speech rights, making comments like, ‘This isn’t really the ’60s anymore,’ and ‘people can’t really protest like that anymore,’ according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. . . . Administrators also maintained that university policy took precedent over Constitutional rights, according to the complaint.”

In the 1960s, college was affordable, faculty outnumbered administrators, and speech was free. It’s hard for me to view today’s situation as an improvement.

No contradiction. He's following the exact same standard then as now. Civil liberties only apply in his opinion to left-wing activities. Back then, did they respect conservatives' civil liberties? No, but they didn't have the organizational muscle (usually) to do anything about it. Keep in mind, even now left-wing activism is given expansive definitions of civil liberties, apparently including the right to assault, and the right to destroy property.

The left is perfectly consistent. They want to create a society where only correct ideology is permitted. That applied in the 60's, right up to today. It's only now that they're in a position to apply that offensively against their political enemies.

The lefties who always believed in universal liberty for all (Roger Simon and Phil Zimmerman come immediately to mind from recent news) were always in the minority, and I'm sorry to say, seen as useful but naive from the beginning.

Higher education appears to often be code for higher indoctrination. Come on, you can usher in an era of socialism with that pesky Constitution the way it is. Just listen to the Professors, don't actually research anything for yourself, and please make sure to take anything a Professor says as absolute truth.

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